English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 25
... rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ... ramparts round the bailey and was continued up the sides of the mound to join the similar stockade encircling its ...
... rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ... ramparts round the bailey and was continued up the sides of the mound to join the similar stockade encircling its ...
Page 37
... ramparts round the bailey , and simply replaced the timber stockade which had previously stood there . As before ... rampart walk ) on the inside to enable the garrison actively to defend the castle ( 34 ) . Particular attention ...
... ramparts round the bailey , and simply replaced the timber stockade which had previously stood there . As before ... rampart walk ) on the inside to enable the garrison actively to defend the castle ( 34 ) . Particular attention ...
Page 142
... ramparts , from which eminence they showered down missiles upon their assailants . The king's forces concentrated their attentions first upon the castle gate and sought to burn it down . They failed , but the attempt is signi- ficant ...
... ramparts , from which eminence they showered down missiles upon their assailants . The king's forces concentrated their attentions first upon the castle gate and sought to burn it down . They failed , but the attempt is signi- ficant ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bodiam Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castles English medieval entrance example flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire